Cybersecurity
Germany Reportedly Seeks U.S. Assistance After Hacking Breach
- German politicians criticize technology security agency
- Interior minister pledges to get to bottom of data dump
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German authorities sought help from the U.S. National Security Agency after discovering that hackers had released private data linked to Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians, Bild newspaper reported.
Responding to the biggest data dump of its kind in the country, German investigators wanted the U.S. intelligence agency to lean on Twitter Inc. to shut down profiles with links to the data, Bild said, citing unidentified security officials. German authorities argued that U.S. citizens were among thousands of people exposed by the data dump.